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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To be irritating, wearisome, or vexing to. See Synonyms at annoy.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To weary; give pain to; annoy: now chiefly used with the impersonal it.
  2. To feel weary or annoyed.
  3. Weary; tired.
  4. n. Weariness; irksomeness.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive to irritate; annoy; bother

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To weary; to give pain; to annoy.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. irritate or vex

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English irken ("to tire, grow weary"), from Old Norse yrkja ("to work"), from Proto-Germanic *wurkijanan (“to work”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- (“to work”). Cognate with Icelandic yrkja ("to compose"), Swedish yrka ("to urge, argue"), Old English wyrcan, wyrċean ("to work"). More at work. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English irken, to weary, possibly from Old Norse yrkja, to work, make verses, harangue; see werg- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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